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This is Season 8, Episode 188 of Sword and Scale,

a show that reveals that the worst monsters are real.

Oh! We got a really, really big episode.

It's going to be a long one.

So, strap in, and it's about a serial killer.

I know some of you love those.

So here it comes.

Thank you for joining us today.

We're going to keep the announcement short because we got so much content. On January 3, 2008, Amanda Peacock clocked in at the huddlehouse restaurant just off of Highway 53 in Marble Hill, Georgia, where she worked as a waitress.

Alongside her fellow servers, Amanda prepared for the expected dinner rush.

The winter holidays had come and gone, and now it was back to business as usual.

For Amanda, this was just a typical Thursday evening. That is, until a bizarre man entered the restaurant. A 60-something

white man, slender, scragly, and in desperate need of a shower. Dressed in a dirt-stained hikers jacket

and worn pants, he looked like he had just crawled out of the woods after having slept there for weeks.

When Amanda approached the man, he asked her if he could use the restaurant's telephone.

Amanda apologized but told him no, explaining that they don't allow non-employees to use the phone.

But the man persisted.

While poorly suppressing his agitation, he babbled on about his long, unsuccessful journey to find a pay phone and his

desperate need to make an urgent call. Amanda became unsettled. The man was talkative, loud,

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